Zachaeie boussest and daniel atjgttste eosenstiehl



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

zAcHARIE oUssIN AND DANIEL AUGUSTE ROSENSTIEHL, OF PARIS, FRANCE, ASSIGNORS To THE sooIETE ANONYME DEs MATIERES OOLORANTES ET PRODUITS GHIMIQUES DE sT. DENIs.

MANUFACTURE OF YELLOWpAND ORANGE COLQRlNG-MATTERS,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 297,852, dated April 29, 1884. Application filed November 30, 1883. (No specimens.)

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Be it known that we, ZAOHARIE RoUssIN and DANIEL AUGUSTE RosENsTIEHL, both citizens of the French Republic, residing in Paris, France, have invented or discovered a certain new and useful Improvement in the Manufacture of Yellow and Orange Coloring- Matters, of which improvement the following specification is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates more particularly to azoic coloring-matters; and it consists in the production of a new class of such coloringmatters or dye-stuffs. The majority of the azoic coloring-matters used in the arts owe their solubility to the presence of the radical of sulphuric acid. We have discovered that on replacing the group 80,11 with the radical of carbonic acid (OO,H) a certain number of these coloring-matters possess solubility sufficient to permit their industrial employment.

The following process is or may be adopted in the preparation of the new colors or dyestufis: A solution of twenty (20) kilograms of paramidobenzoate of soda'in five hundred (500) liters of water is mixed in a cold state with a solution containing eight kilograms and six hundred grams (8K 600) of pure nitrite of soda and nineteen (19) kilograms of sulpuric acid at sixty-six degrees Baum, (66 B.) Paradiazobenzoic acid forms, and to it is added an aqueous solution of thirteen (13) kilograms of resorcine. Saturation with an appropriate base (soda or ammonia) is effected. The coloring-matter forms in this neutral or slightly-alkaline medium. It dissolves in the water, and is or may be separated by acidifying the liquid. It is thus obtained in the state of an acid insoluble in water. It is collected, washed, dried, and saturated by ammonia or by carbonate of ammonia.

By this process the following colors have been obtained, to wit: first, matters dyeing textile fiber yellow by the action of diazometabenzoic acid, diazoparabenzoic acid, diazoorthocinnamic acid, diazoparacinnamic acid,

diazophtalic acid, diazoorthobenzoic acid, or diazodiphenic acid upon phenol, resorcin diphenylamine, methyl and ethyl diphenylamine, dimethylaniline, diethylaniline, or dibenzylaniline; second, matters dyeing shades ranging from orange to red by the action of the acids above named upon naphtholalpha, naphtholbeta, or naphthylaminealpha.

The essential, new, and distinctive feature of this process is the substitution of amidocarboxylated acidssuch as amidobenzoic acid (O H,,NH,GO H)-for the corresponding sulphonic acid G H,NH,SO H in the production of azoic coloring-matters in the state of free acid. In this state the matters are insoluble in water; but their alkaline salts are sufiiciently solublefor practical purposes.

We claim l 1. In the production of azoic coloring-matters, the substitution ofthe radical of carbonic acid for that of sulphuric acid, substantially as described.

2. The azoic coloring-matters described, the same being characterized by the presence of the radical of carbonic acid in place of the sulphuric-acid, radical heretofore present in such matters, substantially as set forth.

3. The improvementin the preparation of coloring-niatters varying from yellow to orange, and even red, consisting in substituting the amidocarboxylated acidssuchas amidobenzoic acid (O H,NH,CO H)for the corresponding sulpho acidssuch as the sulpho acid C H NH SO Hin the manufacture of azoic coloring-matters in the state of free acid, these coloring-matters being insoluble in water, but their alkaline salts being suffioiently soluble for practical purposes, substantially as described.

In witness whereof we have hereunto signed our names in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ZACHARIE ROUSSIN. DANIEL AUGUSTE ROSENSTIEHL.

WVitnesses:

RoBT. M. HOOPER, .AMAND BITTER. 

